3.5.2.8 Displaying Messages

Mail command: print [msglist]

Mail command: p [msglist]

Mail command: type [msglist]

Mail command: t [msglist]

Prints out the messages from msglist. The variable crt determines the minimum number of lines the body of the message must contain in order to be piped through pager command specified by environment variable PAGER. If crt is set to a numeric value, this value is taken as the minimum number of lines. Otherwise, if crt is set without a value then the height of the terminal screen is used to compute the threshold. The number of lines on screen is controlled by screen variable.

Mail command: Print [msglist]

Mail command: P [msglist]

Mail command: Type [msglist]

Mail command: T [msglist]

Like print but also prints out ignored header fields.

Mail command: decode [msglist]

Mail command: dec [msglist]

Print a multipart message. The decode command decodes and prints out specified message parts. E.g.

? decode 15[2] +--------------------------------------- | Message=15[2] | Type=message/delivery-status | encoding=7bit +--------------------------------------- Content-Type: message/delivery-status ...

Mail command: top [msglist]

Mail command: to [msglist]

Prints the top few lines of each message in msglist. The number of lines printed is controlled by the variable toplines and defaults to five.

Mail command: pipe [[msglist] shell-command]

Mail command: | [[msglist] shell-command]

Pipe the contents of specified messages through shell-command. Without arguments, pipe the current message through the command given by the ‘cmd’ variable (which must be set).

Mail command: struct [msglist]

Prints the MIME structure of each message from msglist. Empty msglist means current message.

Example:

? struct 2 2 multipart/mixed 14k 2[1] text/plain 296 2[2] application/octet-stream 5k 2[3] text/x-diff 31k